January 2017 | SabrangIndia News Related to Human Rights Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:27:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://sabrangindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Favicon_0.png January 2017 | SabrangIndia 32 32 IIT-Kharagpur Adivasi Student Commits Suicide on Railway Tracks: TOI https://sabrangindia.in/iit-kharagpur-adivasi-student-commits-suicide-railway-tracks-toi/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:27:53 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2017/01/19/iit-kharagpur-adivasi-student-commits-suicide-railway-tracks-toi/ Republished from Times of India, January 17, 2017 A 3rd year civil engineering student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Lokesh Meena aged 20 years committed suicide for no apparent reason by walking 20 kilometers from the campus and throwing himself before a moving train. Meena was missing from Radha Krishnan Hall since Sunday morning. […]

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Republished from Times of India, January 17, 2017

A 3rd year civil engineering student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Lokesh Meena aged 20 years committed suicide for no apparent reason by walking 20 kilometers from the campus and throwing himself before a moving train. Meena was missing from Radha Krishnan Hall since Sunday morning. After the matter was reported to the hostel warden in the evening by his friends a search ensued.

The news was published by the national daily on the first anniversary of Dalit Research Scholar, Rohith Vemula's death.

Since morning however, friends of Meena had tried to locate him at various classrooms, hostels and even canteens. But after failing to find him out, the matter was reported to the warden. Immediately a complaint was lodged at Hijli police outpost. A team of team officials started a search operation. Around evening a body was recovered from the railway tracks between Jakpur and Madpur.

The institute officials along with police reached the Kharagpur sub-divisional hospital and identified the body of Lokesh. The student was a resident of Dhasa district in Rajasthan, Digheria village.

Father of Lokesh – Rammpal Meena was informed by the IIT officials. He took a flight to Kolkata and reached the campus on Monday morning. He identified his son.

A post mortem was conducted on the body which was later handed over to the family.

Kharagpur GRP informed that the incident had taken place on Sunday around 8am. “We got an information around 9:30. A loco engine which was moving on the middle line mowed him down as Lokesh jumped before the moving train. The engine driver informed the railway staff at Jakpur station. We then rushed to the spot,” said a senior GRP official.

A police team who interrogated friends of Lokesh were informed that the student was suffering from anxiety and depression. “We have been told that Lokesh was detected with Tuberculosis and also had other health issues. We have also got the information that the student had spoken to someone at length just before committing suicide. We are now trying to speak to his father who has already arrived in the Kharagpur campus. Now we are trying to find out if any personal loss or family affair was the triggering point for Lokesh to end his life,” added another senior police official.

SP Bharati Ghosh said that a student had committed suicide. “The local Kharagpur town police station has ended an investigation. The GRP is also conducting a separate inquiry,” added SP Ghosh.

Director of IIT-Kharagpur, Partha Pratim Chakraorty said it was a very sad day for the institute. “Lokesh was a good student and didn’t have any issue related to academics. Also the friends didn’t inform us about any apparent depression or signs of anxiety,” said Chakraborty. “We have a counselling centre at IIT-Kharagpur which is a first of its kind among the higher education institutes. The centre has intervened many a times and ensured that students get back to their usual self, leaving all anxiety behind. Unfortunately in this case they couldn’t get time to meet Lokesh,” added the director.
 

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Universities Have Become Killing Fields, State has Acquired Culture of Criminality: Bezwada Wilson at JNU https://sabrangindia.in/universities-have-become-killing-fields-state-has-acquired-culture-criminality-bezwada/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:35:08 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2017/01/18/universities-have-become-killing-fields-state-has-acquired-culture-criminality-bezwada/ Crisis of Democracy, Bezwada Wilson of the Safai Karmachari Andolan gives an electrifying 38 minute speech  at JNU’s Freedom Square that came back to life with its renewed series of lectures in protest against the oppression of the campus. Ten students from among the most deprived, first generation learners—Dalits, Adivasis, OBCs and minorities—were suspended while […]

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Crisis of Democracy, Bezwada Wilson of the Safai Karmachari Andolan gives an electrifying 38 minute speech  at JNU’s Freedom Square that came back to life with its renewed series of lectures in protest against the oppression of the campus. Ten students from among the most deprived, first generation learners—Dalits, Adivasis, OBCs and minorities—were suspended while protesting against discriminatory admission practices recently introduced by the administration.

“The State has become Cruel and we have Destroyed a Dalit Mother’s Dreams.  Radhika Vemula who is an icon of resistance to this oppression is today scared of her second son (she lost her son Rohith who was killed by the Hyderabad Central University one year back on January 17, 2016) of joining any Indian University even though he has a first class in Geology (MSC). It is a shame that a Dalit scholar with a first class is today driving an autorickshaw in Guntur because our Universites do not offer a life of dignity or safety to Dalit scholars.

“Forty years back, my mother –who never saw the shadows of the walls of any school as she lived the life of a manual scavenger –saw education, and higher education as a way out of Bondage and slavery. Now 40 years later, a Dalit mother finds the University unsafe for Indian Dalit research scholars. What is happening? What is the government doing? What is the Prime Minister doing?

“Yesterday Radhika Vemula was not allowed to enter the University where her son lost his life. She was picked up by Telangana police, abused in unmentionable words and then released. Why is Radhika a threat to the Hyderabad Central University? Why am I not allowed to enter JNU freely? JNU is an icon of Freedom of Expression and Thought.”

This was the first among three lectures given today.

The JNU’s Third Wave of Public Lectures at Freedom Square Lectures were today re-inaugurated with lectures by Bezwada Wilson, Archana Prasad and Ashwini
Deshpande.

Before the lectures began, JNU’s Freedom Square cames back into Light with a brilliant cultural performance by the Students that depicted the state of the country with a proto-fascist government controlling free thought and movement and unleashing repression.

 

Related articles:

1. Protest Barricading of Freedom Square: JNU Students begin Sign Campaign

2. The Real Classroom: Outdoor Lectures Dissect Nationalism at JNU

 

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कैबिनेट ने संघ से जुड़े संगठनों को जमीन आवंटन बहाल करने की मंजूरी दी https://sabrangindia.in/kaaibainaeta-nae-sangha-sae-jaudae-sangathanaon-kao-jamaina-avantana-bahaala-karanae-kai/ Fri, 06 Jan 2017 18:31:27 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2017/01/06/kaaibainaeta-nae-sangha-sae-jaudae-sangathanaon-kao-jamaina-avantana-bahaala-karanae-kai/ पीटीआई-भाषा संवाददाता : नयी दिल्ली, छह जनवरी :भाषा: संप्रग सरकार के समय जिन 20 से अधिक सामाजिक-आर्थिक संगठनों के जमीन आवंटन को रद्द कर दिया गया था, उन्हें इस संबंध में केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल द्वारा हाल ही में एक प्रस्ताव को मंजूरी दिये जाने के बाद जमीन वापस मिलने की संभावना है। इन संगठनों में अधिकतर […]

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पीटीआई-भाषा संवाददाता : नयी दिल्ली, छह जनवरी :भाषा: संप्रग सरकार के समय जिन 20 से अधिक सामाजिक-आर्थिक संगठनों के जमीन आवंटन को रद्द कर दिया गया था, उन्हें इस संबंध में केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल द्वारा हाल ही में एक प्रस्ताव को मंजूरी दिये जाने के बाद जमीन वापस मिलने की संभावना है। इन संगठनों में अधिकतर राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ से जुड़े माने जाते हैं।

कैबिनेट ने शहरी विकास मंत्रालय के प्रस्ताव को मंजूरी दी है जो अधिकतर संघ से संबद्ध संगठनों की जमीन बहाल करने से संबंधित है।

साल 2004 में संप्रग सरकार ने एक सदस्यीय जांच समिति की सिफारिशों के आधार पर पिछली राजग सरकार में हुए जमीन आवंटनों को निरस्त कर दिया था।

उच्च पदस्थ सूत्रों ने कहा, ‘‘पिछली :संप्रग: सरकार ने कुछ आवंटन रद्द कर दिये थे वहीं अपने अनुकूल कुछ संस्थाओं के लिए आवंटन को मंजूरी दे दी और इस तरह भेदभाव किया। शिकायती पक्षों ने शहरी विकास मंत्रालय के सामने अपना पक्ष रखा था जिसने निरस्तीकरण की समीक्षा करने के लिए दो सदस्यों की समिति बनाई थी।’’ सूत्रों के अनुसार, ‘‘कैबिनेट ने समिति के इस सुझाव को मंजूर किया है कि कुछ को छोड़कर सभी आवंटन सही थे।’’ कैबिनेट की मंजूरी के साथ शहरी विकास मंत्रालय दिल्ली उच्च न्यायालय में समिति की रिपोर्ट को रख सकता है जहां इस मुद्दे पर एक मामला लंबित है। मंत्रालय निरस्तीकरण को हटाने की मांग करेगा।

भूमि के 29 आवंटनों को निरस्त करने के संप्रग सरकार के फैसले की समीक्षा के लिए गठित समिति ने पिछले साल करीब दो दर्जन आवंटनों को बहाल करने की सिफारिश की थी।

अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी सरकार ने 1998-99 से 2004 के बीच 32 सामाजिक-सांस्कृतिक और धार्मिक संगठनों को जमीन आवंटित की थी जिनमें से 22 संगठन संघ से जुड़े या समर्थित बताये जाते हैं।

हालांकि 2004 में संप्रग सरकार ने इस आधार पर 29 आवंटनों को रद्द कर दिया था कि इन आवंटनों में नियमों का उल्लंघन किया गया।
 

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